The FudBlog: The FIRST post.

Sunday, February 19, 2023

The FIRST post.

So. TheFudlip - nay, The LEGENDARY Fudlip - plans to write a blog. Whatever that is.

Actually, he has no idea what he is doing. Which is standard.

THE BACKGROUND.

Who is TheFudlip?

TheFudlip goes to gigs, takes terrible pics and makes videos. Some people like them, some don't.

TheFudlip prefers to remain anonymous, but a lot of people know who he is. He doesn't like being photographed because, to be honest, he's pretty damned ugly. This is all you need.

TheFudlip NEVER explains his name.

TheFudlip has a cat. This cat.

THE PLAN.

It seemed to TheFudlip that it might be interesting - to himself, if not to anybody else - to make a record of these gigs, pics and videos, and to make that record available for posterity. An archive, if you will. To post stuff about new gigs and old gigs. Evidence exists of shows dating back to 2010(ish) in places from Perth* in the north to Plymouth in the south, and one memorable trip to Belgium.

(* That's Perth in Scotland, by the way, not Australia.)

Most of the gigs are/were/will be in Edinburgh, but TheFudlip has a fondness for Leeds and will be back there soon.

The gigs recorded span very many genres - post-rock, post-metal, doom, black metal, psych, folk, noise, indie, math, death metal, drone, prog, pop, etc. Even some country. Not country & western though, or jazz, because there are limits to everything.

THE SORT OF THING YOU MIGHT EXPECT.

Last night, TheFudlip went to see veteran Greek stoners NIGHTSTALKER in Legends, brought to us by the very excellent Duncan Mountain at Red Crust Promotions. Support was provided by 'Scotland's hardest band' ROBOT DEATH MONKEY and holders of the 'Worst Band Name Pun' award, THE KRYSS TALMETH EXPERIENCE.

Nightstalker's singer clearly has too many arms and is quite, um... old.